Gmar Khatima Tova – Attonement Day
We ask for forgiveness from friends, relatives and God so that we may enter the new year with a new slate. We don’t need resolutions… Read More »Gmar Khatima Tova – Attonement Day
We ask for forgiveness from friends, relatives and God so that we may enter the new year with a new slate. We don’t need resolutions… Read More »Gmar Khatima Tova – Attonement Day
Normally, most people don’t think of Hassidic Jews as those who are in touch with the time. After all, they keep women separate, they don’t use phones on Shabbat and they generally don’t even think that the earth is older than 6,000 years (5776 to be exact).
However, you go to their website, to their Facebook, their twitter, their email newsletters and even the Chabad itself and you will see young Rabbis who know how to use tech, who know how to talk to young people and who know that the world today is open to everyone and excludes no one.
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I don’t know for certain, but I am pretty sure that the Irish-Americans, who have long been away from the green fields of Ire, would be very irate if United States signed an accord with England that nearly all but guaranteed the destruction of Ireland. I don’t think we would guess and wonder about the loyalties of the Irish-Americans, we would simply understand that all non-Native Americans (except the ex-slaves) have some ties to their country of origin, no matter how far removed. This is no different for American Jews. For American Jews, Israel the country of origin remains in our DNA as all countries of origin for all people. A Jews is a bit more complicated, as Jews may also feel affinity for Morocco, Iran, or ex-Soviet Union due to the centuries spent there as well, although those ties falls off by the second and third generation.